Word: murder
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Heritage Dictionary defines murder as "the unlawful killing of one human being by another." In recent rallies around the country, the animal rights movement promoted a different definition for murder: manufacturing, selling and wearing fur coats...
...murder. It may be a needless fashion symbol, it may involve the death of many animals and it may even entail cruelty to these animals. But, because it does not involve the death of humans, it is not murder...
Life in the other Washington has been getting tougher. Last summer Barry had to resolve a city ambulance crisis after several people died because poorly trained drivers got lost on the way to rescues. With a record 372 homicides last year, Washington has the nation's third highest murder rate. More than half the killings were related to the large quantities of drugs sold in some 200 street markets around town. Before declining slightly in 1987, the city's infant-mortality rate reached a Third World level of 21 deaths per 1,000 live births, more than twice the national...
...deathstyles of the rich and famous." As the brochure promises, Grave Line "takes you back through time to the tawdry, twisted, titillating tales of Tinseltown like no other tour service dares! You'll see Hollywood's Babylon at its most unflattering angle! The sizzling scandals, jilted romances, real murder scenes, hottest suicide spots, hospitals of horizontal dismissals and the churches of famous funerals...
...COVER GIRL AND THE COP (NBC, Jan. 16, 9 p.m. EST). A streetwise cop is assigned to guard a frivolous actress-model, witness to a murder. Dinah Manoff and Julia Duffy, two of the tube's slyest comedians, play the odd- couple title characters in this TV movie...